Lot 27: BARTHOLOMEUS ASSTEYN

BARTHOLOMEUS ASSTEYN DORDRECHT 1607 - 1667/77 STILL LIFE OF PEACHES AND GRAPES IN A WAN-LI PORCELAIN BOWL, TOGETHER WITH A BUTTERFLY, ALL ARRANGED ON A TABLE PARTLY DRAPED WITH A RED CLOTH signed and dated lower left: B. Assteijn./1659 oil on canvas 58.4 by 71.3 cm.; 23 by 28 in.

L.J. Bol, "Bartholomeus Assteijn", in Oud Holland, vol. LXVIII, 1953, p. 147, under no. 17.

Jonkheer V.L. Vegelin Claerbergen;
His deceased sale, Leeuwarden, Kutsch, 6-9 April 1846, lot 3 (as B. van der Ast);
Jonkheer W. Gockinga, Groningen;
His sale (and others), Amsterdam, Van Pappelendam Schouten, 14-15 August 1883;
Possibly acquired by an ancestor of the present owner in that sale, and in any case believed to have been in the possession of his family since at least the early 19th Century.